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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: John Foliot
Date: Oct 20, 2014 2:51PM

Ed Eckenstein wrote:
>
> HTML certainly has many more ways to accomplish this but Word is so
> limited. Seem like based on the ideas brought forth so far the choice
> is either to hyperlink the citation title and not link the actual URL
> or just use the URL as the hyperlink text for the hyperlink. Right now
> I'm leaning towards following APA format and using the URL itself as
> the link text. The purpose and destination of the link would be
> available from the surrounding citation text. Not ideal as the citation
> is not programmatically linked to the hyperlink. Does this seem like a
> reasonable compromise?
>
> Thank to all for the great information shared.

Returning to HTML, and in the context of the subject title "...APA
citations", I wonder how many are using or aware of the <cite> element in
HTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element

JF